Greek - God of war, one of the Olympians. Son of Zeus and Hera. Son or sister of Enyo, some say. Brother of Eris, Hebe and Hephaestus. He was the father of Alcippe by Aglaurus, the Amazons, Cycnus, Oenomaus, Tereus, and of Deinus, Phobus and Harmonia by Aphrodite, Diomedes by Cyrene and also, in some accounts, of the god Eros. He was caught in bed with Aphrodite by her husband Hephaestus who trapped them both in a fine metal net. When his daughter Alcippe was raped and abducted by Halirrhothius, he pursued them and killed the abductor. He was tried for murder and acquitted. The young giants, Ephialtes and Otus, once imprisoned him in a bronze jar where he stayed for over a year until released by Hermes. In the Trojan War he was on the side of the Trojans but was wounded by Diomedes. On another occasion he was wounded in a fight with Heracles. In the form of a boar, he killed Adonis. His animal was the dog, his bird the vulture and his symbol a spear. Sometimes identified as Ares, Enyalius, Enyalius, Ares, sacred animals, sacred animals, animals, Set India Dionysus, Set Australian Aborigines Thor Egypt Egypt Hera, Syria Dionysus, Egypt, Helius, Neptune, Shiva, Zeus Japan Egypt, Pasht Wadjet Hera, Hindu Egypt, Sebek, Set Heracles Huitlantecuhtli Dionysus Buddhism Atargatis Astarte Aphrodite, Dionysus, Venus Apollo, Athena Kaltesh Hestia, Isis Set Ares, Helius Wadjet Anubis, Set Dionysus Helius, Juno Dahomey, Osiris Dionysus, Sandan, Vulcan Dionysus India Dinka tribe, Jupiter Hathor Dionysus, Dusara, Polynesia Angus Og, Greece Dionysus, Zeus Nyx Wadjet Asclepius, Dayaks, Dionysius, Minerva, Sumeria Diana, Jurojin Dionysus Aphrodite, Heracles, Hermes Egypt Apollo, Wepwawet Asia or Hindu.